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a page in their relations while some politicians in warsaw try to ride away with our. top stories here in our town up next we bring you part two of our special report on drug use among u.s. troops in afghanistan and a treatment that sometimes has deadly consequences. long . what was it like being on the base finally. i think. the guy was. very nice guy. also the area with.

and finally there's people they held much of the area but he told me about eighteen seventeen two year cycle. shower toilet everything was the same and different which in this guy's a new guy you don't know if you know about two years ago or because reviews come in from months ago. i don't see how to keep it to noisy. toilet when my son is die. before i thing you know is a while small or something. by no ac real real is a big guys pay for five six thousand people or more. and now in my head is something more and more sure you know somebody shouted their way most on the side and they shout. but i go by through.

everything you know. different in my head special we're taught from a family where they see it's a base how i see this all this all the. armor is one was updating his family about his trip we were meeting with friends you can't write an expert punish weird who's findings were about to change the course of our investigation. and what specifically you wish for is very. well the dynamics of the writing are very insistent she has a print script we can see it in is samples we have some. looks like school know with certain chapter notes it's called chapter twelve i don't know what i was doing but there are there are notes that he wrote and then we have some other. cover little government related. documents to compare and i had a significant number of accounts so i was able to nail down some of the key

ingredients in his own handwriting to compare so these are some of the characteristics that were true which is not as important as the because it's clearly. his kind of identifier. and so we've got the word doctors if we take his known writing we've got it we're doctors in his known writing are right on the money. we've got the word and it's known writing. to which our connector. and we pain. which i can find. there's this pain here. you know so we have it here and here and we have a terence well we always have to keep in mind the idea that writing is never exact

every time you write there's a little variation your writing evolves over time but it always has variation within it and so unless you're understanding that enamored of the writing you might see something being not exact and think it's different and it's not within the context of the writing. and so these are just a few of the characteristics that stand out as being. the highlights of this very thing and the antenna fires for the beginning with no definitive proof of why john was suffering and only veiled references the lariam is units taken of the drug we decided to request all of his medical records to the freedom of information act but in the two years since his death his records at all disappeared they've not been sent to the appropriate storage facility by his

unit when contacted a representative from his unit said they had nothing to send according to witnesses weeks after john's death and then in suits came to the units office and cleared it of all personnel when they left there was no paperwork left with the name john torres then in failed to sign a receipt is required and witnesses were unsure who they were the most believe they were from the sea id i contacted the cod and asked if they had taken the records from the unit in a written response they simply stated you will have your sources to confirm their allegations i have addressed your questions as they pertain to see id good luck with your production. as a last resort we request what few documents may still be on file with army medical command to manage the medical records of active duty soldiers they informed us that they would send a packet containing a few documents they still had a pointed out that what they were sending it included in the criminal investigation report we had received when the packet arrived and included the mental health

evaluation cited but missing from the c. id report it was redaction free and at first glance it became clear white had been purged from the copy sent to the family the mental health evaluation was written by major robert ns lee and be an army psychiatrist to serving with a to fifteen for the medical detachment back room when john died the c. id reports they did to john committed suicide is the result of anxiety and unresolved sematic pain that according to major ns lee's evaluation has cemented things i.e. symptoms are not sufficiently severe based on objective findings to precipitate such an extreme response his psychological stressors were likewise mild especially in contrast to the very promising future that would have begun in earnest in just two months with relatively minimal psycho social factors present a biological basis may be the primary precipitant if toxicology reveals the presence of meth specialist tours this case should be viewed in light of other

suicides suspected to be associated with the drug that is the first military document i have ever seen that seems to suggest that the army was aware that lariam may be causing suicides in the field and they were tracking and i've never seen that before i've only seen the army say that there's absolutely nothing to this that lioness is safe as asked for in his two thousand and four congressional testimony general pete testified that normally suicides have been linked to lariam but acknowledged the drug was perceived poorly by army personnel. you know if you look back at history whether it was combat duty during world war two whether it was engine or engine be it not the military is always slow to react to negative things and they do things that could affect the soldiers for instance agent orange for a while that we didn't believe agent orange caused the cancer and we later learned

did so then now we have lariam which the military created and the army invented lariam well it was unethical and then army invented it so the troops pharmaceuticals ropes pharmaceutical sales of the military so it's kind of hard for the least microscope i think it's hard for the military to acknowledge we have a problem with this drug. until it takes years of people unfortunately dying from the case that you have of dying from larry in toxicity i think about lariam that you have to remember is that it's a class of drugs called quinolones quinolones actually are relatively unusual that they cross the blood brain barrier so in other words if i take tylenol it goes into my blood it goes through my body it passes through this goes to the brain it is absorbed into the brain like fat and that is why at least one a russian officials have told me it gets in there and for certain people once it's

done is damage inside the brain the damage is done inside the brain. when a medication is taken in pill form a method when we look at how much is absorbed and that's it's got very good sort of gastrointestinal absorption and it turns out that it's really heavily concentrated in tissues throughout the body liver kidneys koreas and that includes the brain so when we're talking about neuro psychiatric symptoms or go so far as even to talk about brain toxicity then the brain has some protection from what's in the plow snow with regards to this blood brain barrier and obviously if a medication doesn't come across that blood brain barrier then it can get into the brain and caused damage but mefloquine obviously does concentrate in the brain as

it does and other tissues. concentrates you know very much. according to roche only one in ten thousand users suffer side effects from the drug but a study published in one nine hundred ninety six by the british medical journal found that one in one hundred forty travelers taking methadone can expect to have a neural psychiatric adverse event unpleasant enough to temporarily prevent them from carrying out their day to day activities. in march of two thousand and eight the military journal published a study conducted by the armed forces medical surveillance center. study examine the medical records of over eleven thousand active duty military personnel deployed to afghanistan in two thousand and seven of that sample the report states that almost ten percent showed evidence of a contraindication to lariam with e-mails more than twice as likely as males to

suffer significant side effects yet the military continued to use the drug. the mental health evaluation also questions the care afforded john before his death and we know the jones medical records indicate he sought help for his symptoms and that after repeated doctor visits failed to find anything physically wrong with him john asked to be sent to germany for further testing his request was denied and he was sent to see a psychiatrist you know after repeated trips to the bases hospital and multiple meetings with the psychiatrist the medical staff still missed the warning signs of lariam toxicity according to police report specialist tours complaints apparently dated back to the beginning of his deployment possibly coinciding with his treatment course of lariam but it is medical visits was made between this medication and the semantics symptoms even when he was diagnosed with some form of things id there is no mention of larry's potentially causing or exacerbating the problem of military medicine doesn't things wonderfully well i mean they get people

off the battlefield very very quickly and i think it's your legs blown off god forbid in iraq they do wonderful job one of the things that military medicine is i think critics would agree on is they are just bad at side effects whether it's lariam side effects for the anthrax shots side effects it is just not information that gets out in the field and is not emphasized it's not something that people are me aware of and it's a it's a it's a real problem because a lot of these soldiers are totally full of drugs and vaccines and they have problems and some of the problems are deadly. remember when you join the military you give up certain rights and certain rights that you give up as sort of free choice and you are required to follow your community's orders and that's what the military is based on that's why we can send soldiers into combat we can say go take that hill go face enemy fire because they're following orders and that training begins very early when you enter the military you are trained to follow your

commanders orders and commanders orders can be not only go ahead take the the hill charge the enemy but you'll take this pill because of the time you know they're concerned with the soldiers getting malaria and so if the soldiers get sick with malaria that reduces combat efficiency so as a result they say take this medication we don't want you getting malaria so the soldier has no choice whatsoever and takes the medication well i think that individuals listen to what they need to listen to so if you put if you put an individual in harm's way they're going to acutely listen to what they need to know to keep them alive so you can bet that when somebody goes through basic training there they're paying attention to the kinds of things they need to know like how to maintain their rifle how do how to handle of a rocket launcher how to throw a grenade. those are things that people need just to learn to stay alive if you

told a soldier that they're taking a medication which could also potentially resulted i doubt they would pay attention to you sadly john's case and his parents' experience is not unique my son's. death has devastated my life i. have moments when happy i don't think i've realized the joy at the moment and six years. i really believed in a very naive way that if i never gave up and that if i was diligent and vigilant enough and there i could succeed in having the military acknowledge that this is a toxic drug that should not be used to date i have not. and sex successful in doing so i continue in my efforts and as many people who know me my friends and my family know i have said to them i'm more than one occasion that christopher had

lost his life in combat that i would not miss him any less but i could except that i could understand that it would be a real event we knew it was always possible maureen palmer son christopher sherry a lieutenant in the united states marine corps and a member of its elite special forces committed suicide aboard a navy transport ship and was returning home after an eight month the pointed to the middle east as mother's investigation into his death including an autopsy and other testing would lead to a finding that chris had been suffering from lariam toxicity but six years ago when i sent my son to the marine corps an event that would have never been possible was that he would take his life and so in answer to your question it continues to be a huge open wound in my life. and intellectual level i

understand what happened to christopher that he had evolved because the drug was in psychotic state he and psychotic break it was not in possession of his good mind when he took his life. but there is a part of me that as his mother of twenty eight years still doesn't understand how such a sound stable. vital happy young man could have devolved that fast. and that far three days before his death chris could bathing stop shaving and his behavior became erratic he also confided in a fellow officer that he wanted to kill himself yet no one intervened. christopher was very concerned with other people he picked up the moniker nine one one when he was in class call it continue to follow him to college and so the marines nine one

one shay anytime anywhere for anybody one of the things that's hurtful and most to me is that when i continue to review and review in my mind the days that led up to the instance of christie that no one was there for him it's one of the pieces of this i find hardest to accept after his death a marine corps would claim there had been no warning signs chris was suffering as a car to break or was in danger yet when his mother received a copy of the eulogy delivered aboard the ship it was clear as condition was known good afternoon as with a sad and heavy heart that i speak with you today as the commanding officer of india company i would like to thank those of you outside the company for joining us on our official day of mourning for lieutenant chris. we're not here today to memorialize or condone the way lieutenant shay took his life rather we are here to memorialize the man we knew and worked with this last year i would ask that you not

judge second lieutenant shays final act and act so completely uncharacteristic of the man we knew i feel confident the pending investigations into his death will reveal that some chemical imbalance in the tenet chair took over his mind and caused him to make the ultimate irrational decision. a decision that has left all of us who knew him stunned the highest compliment a marine can receive is to be told that you would want them on your flank in a fight chris shays was the kind of man you would want on your fluent in any fight that is the man we will remember and nothing that lieutenant shay had done in the last seventy two hours will change that fact i do have a concern whether or not the highest reaches of a command structure or have some degree a conflict of interest. because it took the united states army a long long time to acknowledge the toxicity of agent orange i mean i remember

working in a v.a. as a medical student where it was a knock. rate about disability whereas it is now routinely. so i think that there. may be a worry. about opening up pandora's box and i think there's no question that the medical military command structure is subordinate to the commander of the line command so i don't think that you know certain generals of the me or navy or air force. you know speak out of turn i think they're there they have a clear. obligation to their superiors as far as the army is concerned not sure about the navy or the air force but far as the army is concerned they've moved to what's called combat teams brigade combat teams and within their brigade combat team you'll have a brigade surgeon and i forgave certain commute kathlyn or major well the battalion

commanders of the ten a colonel for brigade commander as a colonel all out rank the brigade surgeon brigade surgeon and will make recommendations to the tieing commander or brigade commander but that's all the our recommendations are brigade commander doesn't have to follow the recommendations or the battalion commanders not to follow the recommendations i know from my personal experience i was a trial counsel for several years meaning that as a military prosecutor i was in charge of prosecuting crimes that occurred within a particular day and as a result i would have direct contact the brigade commanders the time commanders the company commanders. i also would attend staff meetings and i saw the interaction between the brigade commanders battalion commanders and the staff and i think there is a. i don't want to say a virus well maybe there's a virus that supports the attorneys the doctors make their recommendations but the line officers will take that recommendation and what if they agree with it or

not we'll consider the recommendation but ultimately it's their own decision and what they will do and i guess as it should be whoever the problem is that there's a bias against what the with the lawyer of the doctor is recommending and for instance these other commanders are saying we don't believe that lariam stuff or we don't think it's a medical risk or the research is really not completed and they discount there's a warning a discount that warning the other thing is to remember is the hierarchy again the medical command. and some military post will fall under the division commander so you think about them a brother you have a division commander is a big umbrella underneath it all the units and they're in there in the reporting chain so for instance if they're in the chain in which they're being evaluated in any which way by the division commander there's always a concern about what you do or what you report the chain of command and how it

affects you as your own job you can receive and they get a rating you receive negative comments from your own command as a result of what you reported up. or you. think they are. chilling on. the mental health evaluation also put to rest the rumors surrounding joins. in philly road duty unexpected nature of suicide special stories this case attracted a number of rumor suggesting a cover up most of which were dispelled in the course of the investigation. rumors that lose its intimate dear john letter were unfounded and surfaced as

a means of explaining the source an. allegation is branded drug trafficking with the theory that specialist torres was murdered because he knew too much were dramatic over and bella schmitz who sources included individuals associated with the two females who actually were sent back for illicit drug use. somebody you know they don't know they don't know what they did. they come and see you lost your son in them a week or two weeks later they say oh you know want your son killed it can sound. you know what if this. was i work in some pain to your other sixteen eighteen hours because we need the support my family support a futile make kids other finally i think we we're view no we've got to fewtrell make you've made. beautiful girls you know she's professor you know she's a. architect my son was accounting and very smart boys

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